A cold, crisp autumn day. The first watercolour wash had too little contrast. But, despite what they say about watercolours being unfixable when they go wrong, the addition of juicy dark tones in the second wash in the background started to wake this painting up.

I’ve been wanting to start combining media in paintings and this one seemed the perfect opportunity. Vibrant autumn trees in oil pastel on watercolour background. If you want to see a bigger image, it’s over in the Flow gallery